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The Daily Chit-Chat, Chat-Chit, Chit-Chit, Chot-Chut Choot Shoot Chute Thread

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I barely know any Japanese but I really want to learn it. We use to have it at our school but it's now gone sadly.
 
Sammyskitty said:
pffft, I'm trying to learn Japanese and German
I only know a little ;-;
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That was totally me last year! :D I was taking both classes in University, as well as a French class. Since I'm going to be majoring in French, I'm not continuing in Japanese or German, but both were pretty fun while they lasted.

I love French too much to give it up, though. I'm so weird, I swear nobody around here actually likes learning French. XD
 
I'm fluent in the language with the most contradictions. Guess which one it is. (HINT: I Speak 1 language.)
I also know a bit of Japanese(Spoken) and one written word.
 
Aside from English, the only language I know much of is Japanese.

Someone at work tried to quiz in me French yesterday, and I failed pretty hard.. > >;

I fail at Spanish too, despite having it taught off and on my whole life.
 
I'm in my fourth year of Spanish and my first of German, so obv at different stages. I started German really late (ie this year, my second-last year of high school), but I really wanted to do another language. Why not Japanese? To this day, I don't know. I always did get on well with the German teacher, though.
 
I was good at Spanish when I took it in school.

But it's been nine years since I last took it and to say I'm a bit rusty would be an understatement :P
 
Even when I did take Spanish in school, I failed miserably at it.

I can't roll the "r's' or whatever it is.
 
I used to learn Spanish at school, but I dropped out after four years because I don't have the learning skills for languages and I was falling behind. I know enough to get by on holiday, though! And we do go to Spain quite a lot.

I mostly just try to learn enough language to get by, whenever I go to a foreign country. The locals really, really appreciate it when you try, especially in Spain and Portugal! (I probably would like to learn Portuguese, if only I had the skills for it. I'll stick to IT!)

I do know enough Japanese to read katakana and hiragana, which is nice when I play Pokémon in Japanese and can shove it all through Google Translate and Veekun with ease. (As in, I can read it, but not understand it).

And hello MW! 8D
 
Trouble with rolling Rs? You people sure are weird, at least for me it's an easy thing to do. What I have some serious trouble pronouncing is 'cr' as in 'screw'. Either it ends up sounding overly aggressive or the 'r' becomes a 'l'. Rather frustrating, no matter how much I try I just cannot pronounce it correctly.
 
mondays suck said:
Trouble with rolling Rs? You people sure are weird, at least for me it's an easy thing to do. What I have some serious trouble pronouncing is 'cr' as in 'screw'. Either it ends up sounding overly aggressive or the 'r' becomes a 'l'. Rather frustrating, no matter how much I try I just cannot pronounce it correctly.
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Say it like "kuh-roo". That may help a lot.
 
Took me about a minute to figure out how to pronounce 'kuh' in English because for me, it means 'cow' is pronounced 'coo', but eventually I succeeded, and wow, that actually works. Thanks!
I would never have thought talking about pronunciation issues on a forum might actually be of help.
 
mondays suck said:
Took me about a minute to figure out how to pronounce 'kuh' in English because for me, it means 'cow' is pronounced 'coo', but eventually I succeeded, and wow, that actually works. Thanks!
I would never have thought talking about pronunciation issues on a forum might actually be of help.
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My friends and I noticed that on skype since we're all from different areas. For example, I pronounce words differently from my friend in Texas or in Canada which can be pretty funny :P

Also, I'll use some of my friends from other countries with help on my foreign languages, so it can be helpful haha.

I know english (obviously) and then some french and arabic :)
 
mondays suck said:
Took me about a minute to figure out how to pronounce 'kuh' in English because for me, it means 'cow' is pronounced 'coo', but eventually I succeeded, and wow, that actually works. Thanks!
I would never have thought talking about pronunciation issues on a forum might actually be of help.
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For that letter pairing, pronouncing the "kuh" sound and then the vowel sound for the vowel that follows the "r" is usually the way to go. A "c" followed by a consonant is usually a hard "c" (meaning it sounds like a "k").

You'd be surprised what you can learn about a language on a forum.
 
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